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Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Lita Chevret aka Madeline Van Dorn in "Everything's Rosie" aka Mary in "Girl Crazy (1932 film)" aka Marie Gardner in "Goldie Gets Along" aka Margy in "The Pay-Off" aka Tanya Serova in "The Fatal Hour" (Died in 2001 at age 92)
Pam Grier aka Alabama in "Women in Cages" aka Lee Daniels in "Black Mama, White Mama" aka Mamawi in "The Arena" aka Charlotte in "Fort Apache, The Bronx" aka Valerie Gordon in "Miami Vice" aka Jackie Brown in "Jackie Brown" (age 62)
Anne Heche aka Mary Jane Wilks in "The Adventures of Huck Finn" aka Juliet in "The Juror" aka Maggie Pistone in "Donnie Brasco" aka Winifred Ames in "Wag the Dog" aka Marion Crane in "Psycho (1998 film)" aka Joan Ostrowski-Fox in "Cedar Rapids" (age 43)
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in the 30s and after WW-II for a couple of years... dad used to go camping a lot at Red Lodge Montana. Gypsy Rose Lee used to spend a lot of time near there and he came across her quite often while hiking.
He said off stage she seemed to be a pretty nice normal person.
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Gypsy Rose was the sister of actress June Havoc.
Yesterday we had an incident where, in a post about the ongoing controversy of the Texas law that would ban TSA 'groping', a commenter posted the addresses of certain Texas public officials, followed by a recommendation that others forward the names and addresses of these public officials to sex offender lists.
Needless to say, we don't do that here.
I removed the comments, troll-labeled that commenter, and made it clear that Rantburg does not and will not be a party to the harassment of public officials.
In the pantheon of public officials, there are some that one might not like or respect. Think of them as you wish, but understand that Rantburg will never -- never -- engage in activities that would be considered by any reasonable person to be harassment. It's not appropriate. It's ethically and morally wrong. It would give our blog an unsavory reputation.
We're not going to go in that direction. Not now, not ever. The ends do not justify the means.
In response to my moderator note last night, at least one other commenter decided to be insulting to a co-moderator, Badanov. You can read for yourself if you like, but I shall note for the record, in case one fell off the turnip truck this morning and doesn't understand how blogs work, that it is a really bad idea to insult blog moderators. That commenter shall learn.
Discourse is great. Sometimes it gets heated here, and we understand that. But harassment of anyone, and/or outright rudeness to other commenters, moderators and the blog owner, simply won't be tolerated.
Let's keep it civil.
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I'm not Fred but I'm also not amused by adolescent neener neeners.
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I've got a better idea. How about doing something meaningful and taking time out to say a prayer for the families that lost 4 young soldiers (possibly more if they die from injuries) today in Afghanistan. It will hit the news later today. Just a thought.
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Besoeker -- I deleted the duplicates. I saw the news and understand your frustration. Damn. My prayers for the families.
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Thank you for the heads up, Besoeker. Damn, indeed. They gave their lives to keep the battle far from home -- may that thought bring some comfort to those who loved them, as they are in the thoughts and prayers of the many here and elsewhere who are grateful for their courage and honor.
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Steve, I am NOT going to debate you. It is a total waste of time. It will get NOTHING done. You and I both agree on that. I will explain why in a moment. The person YOU removed the comment from and replaced with Sir, I am going to have to ask you to leave the internet. Youre too fucking stupid is a friend of mine here in Texas. The person YOU called f*cking stupid (talk about your statement Lets keep it civil) is a person who established a communications relationship with the attorney defending Texas Ft Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. And who TRIED to post the first meaning full response here that he got from Nidals attorney about the White Houses stalling on the Court Marshall. But, you did not post that information so it was sent to another blogger who started an internet buzz with that information in the effort to get justice for the families of our murdered troops.
So this morning I did what my friend recommended. I called the attorneys office. I talked to the receptionist, who left my comments for the attorneys assistant and the attorney himself. Did they consider my comments as harassment? No, they actually thanked me for the public feedback. Was my message As parents we teach our kids to not allow strangers to touch you and you are now defending people who are trying teach our kids that going through a gauntlet of total strangers who want to touch them in places that is wrong is something that gets people on the National Sex Offenders List. Is that you? Just like a Tea Party Activist said in that comment thread, action and communication is in order. Just like the Texan that established real links of communication in the Fort Hood massacre who YOU said was fucking stupid. THAT is why Texas is Red while Chicago and California is blue. You people sit on your blog, link to all that is wrong, make your comments, do and say nothing. Rinse and repeat. Unless someone says do/say something and then you do your little tempest in a teapot at while all around you in your blue state, left wing Socialist liberals are communicating and acting where it matters and rolling over you like a steam roller.
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Badanov, last night followed up with a link to one of the top law enforcement offices in the state of Texas, the Department of Public Safety the DPS. The DPS are the top Law Enforcement Officers (State Troopers) for the State of Texas. The Texas Rangers get their people from the pool of DPS officers (Texas Law Enforcement Officers). So hey, its OK for Badanov to tell everyone to harass law enforcement officials? Now you see why I said From the Heart of Texas, Youre just too fucking stupid. Just like you said to the above Texan for saying to tell the Federal ATTORNEY what you think.
Now go have your little tempest in a teapot for the rest of the day here. :-) Glad I made your day again.
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You prolly won't get to read this before you are banned, but I wanted to tell you anyway.
I posted links to those two pages because I thought your time would be better served giving them an earful and telling them to perform an act of dubious legality, than it would be at Rantburg trying to tell us.
That is why I fail to understand your anger at Rantburg. You went outside our rules.
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Civil discourse? Here? You have to be kidding?
No more slanging, bully ragging or name calling?
What about insults and veiled allusions to manliness?
All kidding aside, I agree with this. We may be a bunch of smart alecks but we can be adults (wow what a concept mature behavior) and discuss the issues without dropping down to liberal smears and democratic name calling when the facts defeat us.
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The person YOU called âf*cking stupidâ (talk about your statement âLetâs keep it civilâ) is a person who established a communicationâs relationship with the attorney defending Texas Ft Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. And who TRIED to post the first meaning full response here that he got from Nidalâs attorney about the White Houseâs stalling on the Court Marshall. But, you did not post that information so it was sent to another blogger who started an internet buzz with that information in the effort to get justice for the families of our murdered troops.
Moderators saw the inforamtion, discussed it and determined that if the infromation was true, it was unethical for a member of anyone in the court to be leaking information , especially the press during a trial. That was those of us who thought the information was genuine.
I did not think it was.
Inasmuch as it turned out to be genuine, it didn't take anything anyway from the point that anyone within that court should be leaking information to the press. It turned out the decision to bypass the information was the correct one.
As I recall Pamela Geller was the person who picked up on it, but for all the "buzz", as you called it, it turned out to be a lot of agenda building, as we originally suspected. Your "buzz" dissipated rather quickly, as I recall.
Didn't it?
I do agree that Mrs. Geller was absolutely the one who should have gotten to information and run with it. She'll do anything for a few additional page views.
Before you jump on anything I have written so far, let me say I think that murdering sunuvabitch Major Hassan should get a fair trial, and should be put to death.
That said, I think those whole episode is a matter of agenda building, just like the Major Hassan thing. The only thing I was trying to do is to let you know you can't get a buncha people in a forum to do your dirty work for you.
You should be prepared to do it yourself, so you can enjoy tyhe consequences later on, say in five to ten.
And who TRIED to post the first meaning full response here that he got from Nidal's attorney about the White House's stalling on the Court Marshall
Obama is the commander in chief. If he decides to delay the trial while he tries out the kinks at Augusta and Pebble Beach, he can pretty much do as he wants, including pardon Major Hassan. For better for worse, he is the boss.
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Yeah, insulting moderators isn't the best course of action. Leads to permabans.
Or SEALS showing up in your living room and shooting you in the face. Rumor has it that bin Laden was making himself a nuisance on a furry website (if you don't know what that is, you don't want to know!) and certain high-up individuals in the current administration decided to pull the trigger on him. So to speak.
Seven soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed Thursday in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan.
In a statement the ISAF said, "Seven International Security Assistance Force service members died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today."
Further details about the incident and the identity of the soldiers were not released, in line with policy.
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At some point, we will realize that certain parts of that country need to be cleansed with fire.
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No offense to Boeserker, but can we please get our wonderful men and women out of this hell hole! These lives are being wasted. We are not solving or improving anything, at least not anything that is going to last. High time we realized that and used the death of OBL as our rationale to leave.
Karzai, the corrupt caped crusader, should be required to be beaten with their bloody helmets, equipments, and boots. Feckless Fucker. How many more have to to die for this POS?
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You'll have to take that error up with the Mongols.
[Iran Press TV] At least eight private security guards have been killed as Talibs ambushed their convoy in volatile western Afghanistan.
Local police say one guard was injured and two others were captured in the attack in Farah province, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wednesday.
The convoy was carrying supplies for foreign troops stationed in the region.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... Taliban front man Qari Yousuf Ahmadi grabbed credit for the attack and said 20 security guards were killed in the attack.
On Tuesday, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... helicopter made an emergency landing in the same province due to technical problems.
The Taliban have stepped up raids on Afghan and US-led troops across Afghanistan over the past years.
There has been a surge in anti-government violence during the past weeks.
The security situation continues to tank in Afghanistan with foreign and Afghan forces falling prey to Talibs on an almost daily basis.
The surge in violence comes despite the presence of about 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan.
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[Pak Daily Times] Airborne NATO and Afghan soldiers expelled Taliban fighters on Wednesday from a government building they occupied in a remote eastern district and forced them to flee to surrounding mountains, a local official said, the latest fighting in a region bordering Pakistain's Tribal Areas.
The quick strike came in the Nuristan province in the country's east. The NATO-Afghan force pushed Taliban fighters back after they seized control of half of the district, kicking them out of the government building just a few hours after they overran it, Governor Jamaludin Badar said.
As coalition forces came under fire, they called in Arclight airstrikes, killing at least 10 Taliban fighters, NATO said in a statement. Though NATO declined to comment on the troops used in Wednesday's battle, they likely were US soldiers, as NATO's eastern regional command is comprised mostly of American forces. An Afghan Defence Ministry front man said 100 commandos flew there with NATO forces and planned to remain on the ground through the fighting.
NATO said the battle was still going on late Wednesday afternoon. Taliban fighters, who used mortars and rocket-propelled grenades to seize control of Do Ab district, decamped into the surrounding mountains and continued to fire down on NATO forces, Badar said.
Eight Taliban fighters have been killed in the last several days of fighting there, Badar said. Three coppers also were killed during that time, he said. The Taliban and other terrorist groups control large swaths of Nuristan, Kunar and other northeastern provinces near the Pak border. Terrorists have safe havens in Pakistain's neighbouring lawless tribal regions and regularly cross the border into Afghanistan to attack NATO troops.
No Afghan military or NATO forces patrol Nuristan, leaving only lightly armed police to defend the province. NATO and Afghan soldiers have flown there in the past to put down fighting. During the last major Taliban assault there May 11, an Afghan military helicopter crashed as it ferried reinforcements to stop hundreds of Islamic fascistiassaulting four outposts just south of Nuristan's capital Parun. The Afghan military did not give details of casualties from the crash.
The Taliban also controls the tiny capital of Nuristan's rugged Waygal district, which they overran with more than 300 fighters on March 29.
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[Al Jazeera] Four UN helicopters were shot at, probably by militias allied to northern Sudan forces, during a visit to the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei late on Tuesday, according to a UN spokeswoman.
A total of 14 rounds were fired when the helicopters took off, but the crews landed safely, Hua Jiang , a UN spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Jiang said militias of the Arab Misseriya tribe supported by Khartoum were probably responsible for the attack, adding that they were now moving southwards after civilians had left the main settlement of Abyei.
"There are reports that they are moving south," she said.
Jiang said fighting and looting in Abyei had stopped after inhabitants left, adding that some stockpiles of UN agencies had been looted.
Sudan's northern army moved tanks into Abyei town, the border area's main settlement, on Saturday, sparking an international outcry and forcing thousands to flee.
On Tuesday, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan's president, refused to withdraw troops from Abyei, defying international calls for a withdrawal, and raising the stakes in a standoff with the south.
"Abyei is northern Sudanese land," Bashir said, adding he had given the green light to the northern army to respond to any "provocation" by the south, which also claims Abyei and plans to secede in July.
Analysts are watching how the south will react, fearing further north-south fighting could reignite a full-blown conflict that would disrupt the already fragile region.
Sudanese forces and and South Sudan separatist fighters fought for decades before a 2005 peace deal that also allowed southerners to vote overwhelmingly for independence in a referendum in January.
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[Iran Press TV] The sound of four kabooms has echoed across Tripoli as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... warplanes flew sorties over the Libyan capital and carried out another round of Arclight airstrikes.
The blasts rocked an area near the center of Tripoli late on Wednesday night, but the exact targets could not be identified, AFP reported.
Early on Wednesday morning, several missiles hit the Bab Al-Aziziya district of Tripoli, where Libyan ruler Muammar Qadaffy's residence is located.
NATO warplanes also attacked Qadaffy's residence on Monday. The Libyan government said nineteen people were killed and more than 150 others were maimed in the Arclight airstrikes.
Earlier on Wednesday, US President Barack B.O. Obama said pressure on Qadaffy should continue until he is forced out of power.
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[Ennahar] The French magazine "La Belle France Soir" reported in its online edition yesterday that Qadaffy would be willing to cede power with the condition he remains in Libya. The magazine said the Libyan leader spends his time consulting Internet and would be unable to move.
The magazine quoting "Le Canard Enchaîné", according to which Qadaffy is "hunted by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... aircraft, could find refuge in Serbia. Belgrade would indeed be volunteered to host the Libyan dictator. This is what revealed "Le Canard enchaîné" to appear Wednesday. While air strikes are continuing, Western envoys (French, British, Americans and Germans) have contacted personalities close to former President Muammar Qadaffy, including Moussa Koussa, a former intelligence chief and Minister of Libyan Foreign, now a refugee in Perfidious Albion. He would be instructed to send a message to Libyan leader's son Saif al-Islam, promising immunity to the entire family in return for a permanent exile.
The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU), meeting Wednesday in special mini-summit in Addis Ababa, trying again to make its voice heard in the Libyan conflict, its previous calls for a cease-fire and a political solution being kept dead letter.
A dozen African heads of state and the UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon were to meet late afternoon at a special mini-summit, following a meeting of "ad hoc" AU on the Libyan crisis chaired by Mauritanian Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa.
This mini-summit, to be completed Thursday, opens on the eve of a G8 in Deauville, where Libya is also a central concern of key world leaders.
At the same time, South African President Jacob Zuma has announced that he would travel from Pretoria on Monday to Libya to discuss with Colonel Muammar Qadaffy ... dictator of Libya since 1969. From 1972, when he relinquished the title of prime minister, he has been accorded the honorifics Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution. With the death of Omar Bongo of Gabon on 8 June 2009, he became the longest serving of all current non-royal national leaders. He is also the longest-serving ruler of Libya since Tripoli became an Ottoman province in 1551. When Chairman Mao was all the rage and millions of people were flashing his Little Red Book, Qadaffy came out with his own Little Green Book, which didn't do as well. Qadaffy's instability has been an inspiration to the Arab world and to Africa, which he would like to rule... , "as a member of the High Level Panel of the African Union to resolve Libyan conflict.
"The aim is to discuss an exit strategy for Muammar Qadaffy," told AFP an anonymous source within the South African presidency.
In Addis, the chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping for his part said to be "convinced that only a political solution can bring lasting peace and meet the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people to a destiny chosen in freedom, democracy and the rule of law."
"In this regard, the roadmap of the AU provides all the elements of such a solution. It is further necessary that we be given the opportunity to implement it," he added.
The AU has shown itself hostile to any external military intervention in Libya at the beginning of the armed rebellion in mid-February.
The organization is engaged in a delicate mediation to make accepted by the Libyan protagonists a "roadmap" setting out a cease-fire as soon as possible, a humanitarian aid delivery and the establishment of a period of transition and dialogue leading to democratic elections.
The regime of Muammar Qadaffy has quickly accepted the proposals of the AU, but the National Council of Transition (CNT), on behalf of the rebels demanded first departure of Colonel Qadaffy and his sons.
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The imbeciles in the state department and the incompetent administration really left Gadaffi Duck no way out. Now it takes the AU to breathe some reason into him after a very costly military experience that no one in our incompetent media will discuss.
Curse Obama and his filthy administration. Stupid ass.
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This mini-summit, to be completed Thursday, opens on the eve of a G8 in Deauville, where Libya is also a central concern of key world leaders.
Whoaa...who would've seen this one comming? And, imagine, on the eve of the G8 pow-wow no less. Just when folks were starting to describe this...Narrow Humanitarian effort with intermittent kinetic pieces... as a "stalemate". And outta nowhere comes cryptic reports that Mighty Mo is starting to get all squishy. Damn, that's gotta make for interesting conversation over all that succulent Frenchi cuisine. Not to mention, the perpetutualy dysfunctional Afrikan Union appears to be brokering the deal. You really can't get much more anti-colonialist then that now can you. Wow...it's almost as if this stuff has been scripted.
I don't think incompetent is quite the word. It seems to give them the benefit of the doubt, as if they just can't do any better. But I don't believe that. Corrupt might be more like it but even that seems to fall short.
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It is unfortunate that the greatest call for reason of intervention came 2 months after deployment and from a foreign country's hall of government (not a slight on our UK brethren, to be clear as the cliche goes).
To me, the triple letters and old newswrap is a bailout and/or health care waiver from being federal/nationalized media.
Daffy's strong character flies in the face of any UN authority, which has happened a number of times before, really going back to post Desert Storm, but here in prime time the weakness of all these alliances is on show. I believe the heads of a la carte are quite aware of this and are now jockies of the perpetual siege and likely more in love with the precedence of procedure than actually solving any problems. In essence, charting a course to create more stalemates in order to display why the UN et al are necessary.
National Counsel of Transition? Really? What a load of shit, at least come up with a soccer club name like, Libya Sporting Club or Disgruntled Peoples United. It stinks of administrative genericism and should be condemned as such, war for red tape. Be thankful if your skin is not on the line waiting for the end of second breakfast for a watered down tea letter penned out in sleepy head nobs at a 5 star conference room by fat asses on fancy folding chairs.
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"Corrupt might be more like it but even that seems to fall short."
Howzabout "collusion-ists," EU?
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Le Canard enchaîné ("The Chained Duck") is a French satirical paper. France Soir seems to be quoting the Canard as though it is serious. Though Le Canard
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Although, for all I know, the French and British may have valid reasons to attack Daffy. I just don't believe it has anything to do with protecting innocent civilians. I wouldn't be surprised if more people have died as a result of NATO prolonging this conflict than would have died if they had let it run its course. The media should be scoffing at that explanation and hounding the officials who spout such nonsense. But they don't. It is suspicious to say the least but they go on as if it's all normal and natural. It stinks.
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"I don't think incompetent is quite the word. It seems to give them the benefit of the doubt, as if they just can't do any better."
Meaning they still may not do any right(to Correct).
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EU6305, I agree especially if you add Italy to that list as they were going to receive the brunt of any boat refugee (and Malta) as well as a major consumer of Libya oil.
NATO is serving a UN warrent. It was the UN process which let the window close on using early rebel momentum and Daffy disorganization. I think if France had just done it a number of others would have been on board even if privately.
Heck, I might have even been on board for US involvement had it been properly explained, but all we get is a campaign speech from Britain two months later. It is contemptable.
I think what I feel is leadership envy. Finnigan O'Bama is a joke. The media is so untrustworthy that even if this were true nobody would believe it.
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" I think if France had just done it a number of others would have been on board even if privately."
France dropped the first munitions thus engaging NATO to the task. CINC here was itching to be on the "right side" so he followed. They were going to do it anyways.
Yemen's Defense Ministry says 28 people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons storage facility in Sanaa.
However, the opposition disputes the government's account and says the latest deaths happened early Thursday during heavy shelling of a residential area by troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Yemen's Defense Ministry says 28 people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons storage facility in Sanaa.
However, the opposition disputes the government's account and says the latest deaths happened early Thursday during heavy shelling of a residential area by troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
[Yemen Post] Yemen said on Tuesday that the armed loyalists of sheikh Sadiq Al-Ahmer were continuing their attacks on government buildings in the capital Sana'a and festivities with the police.
An official at the Interior Ministry said the armed rustics were shelling the Ministry trying to take over it, but the official did not give details about casualties.
However, The flatulent However... eyewitnesses said that a shell landed near the house of Al-Ahmer killing four civilians, after the festivities resumed at noon.
Late on Monday, a tribal and military mediation ended the festivities after tens had been killed and injured from both sides in Al-Hasaba area.
Meantime the mediation committee members are being besieged and today Yemeni holy mans and sheikhs met at the house to announce support to Al-Ahmer and condemn the attacks against his home.
" The loyalists of Sadiq Al-Ahmer besieged government buildings including the official news agency Saba, the Trade and Industry Ministry and others and tried to control them but the police resisted all attacks," the Ministry said on Monday.
The situation is very scary in the area as the people are being forced to stay indoors as the fierce festivities in which heavy weapons are being used are continuing.
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[Yemen Post] According to a senior ministry of Interior official, 14 security forces have been killed in Tuesdays's festivities with Hashed rustics. "The criminals of Ahmar tribes have killed 14 of our secret police and kidnapped two," the official said
"The armed Ahmar gangs were attacking governmental compounds and killing anyone loyal to the government."
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[Iran Press TV] Forces loyal to the Yemeni President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... have blocked all the entrances to the capital to prevent rustics from joining heavy festivities there.
The entrance ban was imposed on Wednesday as armed festivities between Yemeni security forces and the members of the country's most powerful Hashid tribe entered the third day.
The rustics have reportedly taken control of several government buildings in the capital, including the national airline building and the headquarters of the state, according to news agency Saba.
Witnesses say hundreds of people are fleeing the capital, seeking safety elsewhere.
"It's no longer possible to stay in Sana'a. The confrontations will reach all parts of the city. I am afraid for my life. I will go to my village in Ibb. The situation there is safe", said Murad Abdullah as he left by car.
Clashes between President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... 's troops and rustics loyal to Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar, head of Hashid tribe broke out in the Hassaba district of Sana'a on Monday after Yemeni security forces moved against the tribal leader's compound.
A tribal official speaking on the condition of anonymity said hundreds of Hashid fighters were moving in from outside Sana'a to al-Ahmar's house to protect it. Al-Ahmar joined the opposition in March.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again... the isolated Yemeni president, who has been in power for almost 33 years, has once again rejected calls to step down. He also said that he is prepared to escalate the fight against the opposition tribes.
Since late January, hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters have been staging anti-Saleh protest rallies across the country on a daily basis. The Yemeni protesters are calling for the immediate ouster of Saleh.
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[Iran Press TV] Nearly 70 people have been killed over the past three days as festivities between Yemeni security forces and rustics intensify in Sana'a.
Both sides raised the specter of a civil war as the corpse count rose over the course of three days of battles in the capital, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported on Wednesday.
President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... said on Wednesday that he is prepared to escalate the campaign against anti-regime rustics, who are calling for his immediate ouster.
He said he would work to prevent the recent violence from "dragging the country into a civil war," while the opposition are demonstrating against any attempt by the regime to pull the country into a civil war.
In a statement read out by Saleh's front man, Ahmed al-Soufi, the president said, "I will not leave power and I will not leave Yemen. I don't take orders from outside."
He also criticized the US-backed efforts to negotiate his exit after almost 33 years of authoritarian rule.
Reports say that tribal fighters have occupied 16 ministries and other government institutions, while Saleh's forces are using the Interior Ministry as their front-line base.
Some military units also defected to the opposition on Wednesday. One breakaway unit trucked in stones to block streets in order to prevent government troops from moving in heavy weapons.
An aviation official said that festivities near Sana'a airport have diverted flights.
The violence escalated on Monday after Saleh refused to sign a power transition deal brokered by the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... on Wednesday UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate end to the fighting and expressed concern that the festivities "might further destabilize the situation," his front man Martin Nesirky said at UN headquarters in New York.
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[Iran Press TV] Yemen's President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... says he will not be dragged into a civil war, even as festivities with the leader of a powerful tribal confederation rages on in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a.
Yemen will not be "a failed state, another Somalia or a safe haven for thug group al-Qaeda," Saleh told Rooters on Wednesday, vowing to fight those "who threaten the security and stability" of the Arab country.
The embattled president has also slammed efforts by US President Barack B.O. Obama to use the United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... Security Council (UNSC) as a tool to pressure Saleh into a step down.
He stressed that the crisis in the impoverished country is purely "an internal matter" and claimed that he would never take orders from any foreign powers.
However, The flatulent However... despite the harsh warnings, Saleh asserted that he is now ready to sign a power transition deal within the framework of a dialogue.
He, however, outlined that he would not leave Yemen and would continue as part of the opposition after he leaves power.
This is while on Sunday, Saleh refused for the third time to sign a deal layed out by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council ... the Medes and the Persians are very sensitive on the subject of the Persian Gulf, which the Arabs refer to as the Arabian Gulf... ([P]GCC), to transfer power to his vice president and resign within 30 days in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
Following his rejection, fierce festivities broke out between Saleh's troops and rustics loyal to opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar in the capital Sana'a on Monday.
Ahmar who is the leader of the Hashid tribal federation and a former supporter of President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... , joined the opposition in March. Saleh himself comes from the Hashid tribe.
The strongman accuses Saleh of trying to spark a "civil war" in an attempt to remain in power.
Fighting between the two sides continued on Wednesday, a day after fierce festivities left over 60 people dead and hundreds more injured, Xinhua said.
According to witnesses, the rustics have so far managed to take over Yemen's state news agency Saba and the country's national airliner Yemenia.
They are now trying to take control of the interior ministry headquarters.
Since late January, hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters have been staging anti-Saleh protest rallies across the country on a daily basis, demanding the ouster of Saleh.
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[An Nahar] Tribesmen loyal to a powerful opposition chief have taken control of state news agency Saba in Sanaa, a high-ranking official and witnesses said on Wednesday, as fighting in the Yemeni capital resumed.
Clashes between security forces and Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar's rustics broke out in Sanaa on Monday and have left at least 44 people dead, according to an Agence La Belle France Presse tally based on reports by medics, the government and rustics.
The rustics also hold the national airline Yemenia and have tried to occupy the interior ministry headquarters, according to witnesses and the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"Sheikh al-Ahmar's men are required to withdraw from the buildings under their control," the official said. "Otherwise, we will force them to do so."
A Saba journalist said that primitive had taken over state news agency's headquarters during the night.
"Armed men stormed the Saba headquarters during the night and demanded that we leave," the journalist told AFP on condition of anonymity.
On Monday, a Yemeni official said on condition of anonymity that the rustics had taken over the trade and industry ministry.
The buildings controlled by followers of Sheikh al-Ahmar, who heads the powerful Hashid tribal federation, are located in the al-Hasaba neighborhood, where he lives, and adjoining streets.
Access to the area has been cut by cement blocks and burning tyres placed in the streets.
There was a lull in the fighting early Wednesday, but gunbattles broke out again later in the day, an AFP correspondent said.
President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower... on Sunday explicitly warned of civil war as he refused to sign the transition plan brokered by impoverished Yemen's oil-rich Arab neighbors in the Gulf. Protesters have been demanding his ouster since January.
Sheikh al-Ahmar in March pledged his support for the opposition.
"I announce in the name of all the members of my tribe that I am joining the revolution," Ahmar said, calling for Saleh "to exempt Yemen from the bloodshed and make a quiet exit."
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The RAB have arrested two alleged leaders of banned group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) from Nabinagar in Savar. Forty hand grenades, and 41 grenade cartridges and chemicals, including nitric acid, were also recovered after their arrest on Wednesday night, RAB officials said at a press conference on Thursday.
The detained are Mohammad Abdus Samad, 39, secretary of Sylhet unit, and Ashraful Islam, 30, secretary of Iswardi Upazila unit in Pabna.
The paramilitary force could not arrest the homeowner, one 'Nazmul', also alleged to be a HuJI member, as he was not present during the raid.
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A total of 29 men were killed and four others were wounded in an apparent intergang firefight near Ruiz, Nayait Wednesday afternoon, according to Mexican news accounts.
Reports are saying that one of the groups involved may have been affiliated with the Sinaloa drug cartel.
The Mexican state of Nayarit is considered the Sinaloa gang's territory and is adjacent to the west of the state of Zacatecas, considered to be a Los Zetas stronghold.
The battle began at 1630 hrs near the village of Heroico Batallon de San Blas in Ruiz municipality when a group of armed suspects abducted an individual and was intercepted by another group.
Mexican security forces entering the area of Mexican Federal Highway 15 found hundreds of spent shell casings and ten abandoned vehicles, mostly pickup trucks. Reports are that several heavy weapons were found at the site and also that fragmentary grenades had been used in the battle.
Four men wounded in the firefight were detained at the scene.
[An Nahar] A blast tore through a car Tuesday outside a security service building in the capital of Kazakhstan, killing two people in the second such incident in the usually stable Central Asian nation in a week.
Initial reports attributed the blast to a jacket wallah, but the ex-Soviet republic's interior ministry later played down the terror link.
The interior ministry said in a statement that two people died after a "spontaneous kaboom" tore through the car.
"These circumstances point to the absence of signs that this was an act of terror," the ministry statement said.
Interior Minister Kalmukhanbet Kasymov later told news hounds that "there is no evidence of their involvement in any religious or orc organizations."
The blast coincided with a visit to Astana by Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus who is negotiating an emergency loan for his ex-Soviet state.
The blast went off early Tuesday morning on a square that includes a remand prison operated by the Committe of National Security (KNB), the country's main successor to the communist-era KGB.
But the square also has a train station, and Kazakh state media only referred to that building when telling the nation about the location of the blast.
The police also dismissed initial reports by the private Russian-based Interfax news agency that attributed the incident to a suicide bomber.
The blast came just a week after a suicide kaboom outside the headquarters of the security service in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe, which maimed three people including a member of the security services.
Such attacks had until now been rare in Kazakhstan, the most stable and prosperous of the Central Asian republics, whose vast mineral wealth has been overseen since the Soviet era by President Nursultan Nazarbayev ...has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. Contrary to commonly held belief, there is a difference between Kazakhs and Cossacks: Kazakhs have mustaches. Or maybe it's the other way around....
The veteran leader won an overwhelming re-election last month that was once again criticized by observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has never recognized a Kazakh election as fair.
Nazarbayev has nevertheless enjoyed broad public support, fostering a business-friendly economic environment and building warm ties with both Russia and China as well as the United States.
The country's parliament, which includes only members of the ruling party, recently passed a draft law allowing Kazakh servicemen to join the international coalition in Afghanistan.
A top U.S. embassy official in Astana said Monday that the move should not directly threaten Kazakh security, but warned of the continuing dangers posed by the Taliban.
"I think that all countries that participate in the anti-terrorist struggle, whether they are directly involved in Afghanistan or not, are at some risk," U.S. Charge d'Affaires John Ordway said in comments released by the embassy.
"And frankly, Kazakhstan and Central Asia face a much bigger threat from the Taliban than even the United States does," he said.
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Explosions at three places near government buildings in an eastern Chinese city killed two people and wounded six on Thursday.
The person suspected of setting off the near-simultaneous blasts in Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, was confirmed dead in the blast. It did not say if the death toll of two included the suspect. Xinhua identified the dead suspect as Qin Mingqi, a 52-year-old unemployed person.
The explosions shook the prosecutor's office, a district-level government office and the district food and drug administration, and damaged 10 vehicles. Most of the windows in the eight-story prosecutor's office were shattered after the explosion.
Local villager Zhang Weizhang said it was possible a disgruntled resident was to blame.
"There are plenty of people complaining about the government. They ignore complaints. They've ignored mine. But nobody ordinary would do something like this. This isn't normal for here," said Zhang, who said he was in a dispute over forestry rights in Fuzhou's Linchuan district.
A bomb exploded at a crowded bus stop in a busy Istanbul shopping district, wounding seven people on Thursday.
Turkey has already been on high alert before elections next month amid threats of violence from Kurdish separatists. No group has yet claimed responsibility.
Tuncay Ozdemircan, a nearby resident, said: "I suddenly heard a loud blast, the windows were shaking. It sounded more like a bomb than a gunshot. When I looked from the window I saw yellow smoke billowing into the sky. I thought to myself, it's a bomb explosion."
The bomb is said to have been planted on an electric bicycle.
The deadly 15-hour siege on Pakistan's Mehran naval airbase in Karachi on Monday was carried out by attackers with military-level training, raising suspicions they had inside help.
Questions are being asked about the security of Pakistan's vital military installations after a well-organised group of gunmen held off Pakistan's equivalent of the US Navy Seals - the Special Services Group-Navy (SSG-N) - for 15 hours.
The SSG-N is said to be the most formidable fighting force in Pakistan, but - for a few hours at least - they appeared to be at the mercy of a brazen group of fighters.
"They weren't any ordinary militants - certainly not the Taliban," said one security official, who wished to remain unnamed. "The aim of all Taliban attacks is maximum death and destruction - these men were very focused on what they were after."
* ION DAILY TIMES>PK > ICG: TAIJIKISTAN AT GROWING RISK OF INSURGENCY. Econ-troubled, young Taijik Males, Top Politicos slowly but wily steadfastly turning [pro-Violence] Radic Islamist as the answer to enduring Personal, National troubles.
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PNS Mehran attack is a failure of defense institutions. Another atrocity on Muslims, yet the Muslim majority goes silent. No matter what happens, the Pakistan defense authorities will be blamed. Despite our serious efforts to protect the country, we cannot bend the will of the terrorists. We must understand this reality that Pakistan is under serious threats from its enemies. Such attacks are highly embarrassing and cannot be taken lightly. These terrorists are well trained and not bound by any law or border. They are desperate and they want to challenge and demoralize the security forces. The enemy of the states has hijacked Pakistan using strategically the phantom of Taliban. It is stated that there is an insider job in the whole plot of PNS Mehran storm. Pakistans immature media anchors and opportunist politicians need to understand the new game plan. This involves tarnishing the image of Pakistans military in order to destabilize and eventually disintegrate the country for a larger scheme of reshaping the world to the advantage of the sole super power.
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No matter what happens, the Pakistan defense authorities will be blamed.
The 'terrorists' are the offspring of the Pakistan defense establishment and its members, both retired and active. Like it or not, there's a low-level civil war going on in Pakistan.
And - it's a rather cold comfort to see that the Pakistanis are yet once again reverting to historical type and blaming everyone but themselves.
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As infiltrated as the Pakistani military is with militants, the attackers at Mehran could probably BE SSG-N personnel.
Even if that is not the case, the Paks trained them and they found out how well they had trained them.
I still think they thought there were some nukes at Mehran. OR do you suppose there WERE some nukes at Mehran and the Paks are not talking?
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After the genocide in East Pakistan committed by the Pakistani military in 1971, they don't have any image left to tarnish. This is an army that has never won a war and slaughters civilians.
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See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISLAMIC MOVEMENT OF UZBEKISTAN BEHIND PNS MEHRAN ATTACK.
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* PAKISTAN DEFENCE FORUMS > ANP SAYS PAK MILITARY PROTECTS HAQQANIS + OTHER MILITANTS, WIKILEAKS.
* SAME > THREE PAK NUCLEAR SITES ATTACKED BY MILITANTS IN LAST FIVE YEARS, SAYS EXPERT, at Wah, Sargodha, + Kamra since 2006.
[Al Jazeera] A car boomkaboom has badly damaged a cop shoppe in Pakistain's volatile city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, killing six people and wounding several others, police said.
Officials said the blast early on Wednesday all but flattened the cop shoppe. Police said up to 26 people were maimed.
The bomber's target appeared to be a building belonging to the police's criminal investigation department, but Mighty Pak Army facilities were also nearby, said Liaquat Ali Khan, a senior police official in the area.
Authorities were searching for bodies or survivors in the rubble, he said.
Residents said the kaboom rattled windows throughout the city. Television footage showed police and soldiers cordoning off the affected district.
The incident occurred about 1km from the US consulate and in the same district where a car boomwent kaboom! last week as a US consulate convoy passed by.
One man was killed and about a dozen people were maimed, including two US nationals, in that incident.
The Pak Taliban told the AFP news agency it was behind Wednesday's suicide kaboom.
"We will continue attacks on security forces until an Islamic system is implemented in Pakistain, because the Pak system is un-Islamic," Ehsanhullah Ehsan, a front man for the Pakistain Taliban, told the Rooters news agency, adding the attack was also in Dire Revenge™ for bin Laden's death.
A string of attacks in Pakistain have followed the US raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden ... he's rotten though not quite forgotten... earlier this month.
The Pak Taliban vowed Dire Revenge™ and have already claimed three attacks since the May 2 raid.
In the most high-profile attack, gunnies stormed a naval base in the city of Bloody Karachi late on Sunday night. At least 13 people were killed and 15 more injured in the firefight that followed.
The commander of the naval base was relieved of his duties and replaced, according to a statement from the navy on Wednesday.
A committee has been formed to investigate how the gunnies had infiltrated the base.
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[Pak Daily Times] Six people were killed in violence, road accidents and other incidents that took place in different parts of the metropolis on Wednesday.
A man was killed when he fell down while trying to embark on a moving train in Shah Faisal Colony within the limits of Drigh Road Railway cop shoppe. Rana Bilal, 27, son of Zulfiqar, resident of Sector 3, Shah Faisal Colony, was trying to embark on a moving train in Shah Faisal Colony, but he could not control himself and fell down.
He received severe injuries and was struck down in his prime. The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to his heirs. In other incident, an elderly man was killed in a road accident in Defence Commercial Street in the limits of Gizri cop shoppe. Ejaz, 65, son of Baqaruddin, resident of Defence Housing Authority, Phase VII, was going home on his cycle of violence when a speeding vehicle knocked him, resultantly he suffered severe injuries and was struck down in his prime. The body was shifted to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities and later handed over to his family. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unknown driver and initiated further probe into the case.
In yet another incident, a young man was killed when his bike skidded on a road in the remits of Defence cop shoppe. Michael Masih, 22, son of Karamat Masih, resident of Punjab Colony, was going on his cycle of violence when his bike slipped on the road due to over speeding. As a result, he suffered severe injuries and was struck down in his prime. Police shifted the body to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.
Separately, a man was rubbed out in Shireen Jinnah Colony in the limits of Jackson cop shoppe. Gul Mohammad, 25, son of Abdul Razzak, resident of General Abad, started fight with his relatives who opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. His relatives decamped after the crime. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Bloody Karachi for medico-legal formalities. SP Tariq Mughal said the victim hailed from Afghanistan, adding that police had started search for the culprits. No case was registered till filing this report.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had escaped from his bonds and overwhelmed this guard using the bludgeon Filomena had smuggled to him in the loaf of bread... a teenage girl hanged herself to death at her house in Darwaish Colony in the remits of Bahadurabad cop shoppe. Samina, 18, daughter of Jaffar Ali, resident of Darwaish Colony, hanged herself to death with ropes tied with a ceiling fan. The body was brought to the JPMC for medico-legal formalities.
Police officials said the victim was a housemaid and she had saved some money, which was stolen by some unidentified persons. This dishearten and led her to commit suicide, they said. The family took the body without completion of legal formalities.
Police have recovered the 11-day-old body of a man from a Christian graveyard in the limits of Sir Syed cop shoppe. Ajmal, 32, went missing on May 14, 2011 and his spouse at Sir Syed cop shoppe in this regard filed a report. Police said accused Habib, who was jugged two days ago, revealed during an initial course of investigation that he had killed Ajmal over suspicious of his illicit relations with his wife. The accused further informed that he had buried the body of Ajmal at a Christian graveyard. The police in the presence of magistrate, police surgeon and doctors from the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital recovered the body, which was later buried at a local graveyard after completion of legal formalities. Further investigation was underway, the police said.
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[Pak Daily Times] PNS Mehran Base Commander Commodore Raja Tahir has been removed from his post after being suspended, and Commodore Khalid Pervez has been appointed new base commander, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. That's certainly something new...
According to the defence sources, Commodore Tahir would remain suspended till the completion of the inquiry into the gun, grenade and rocket assault that took place at the base late on Sunday and continued until midday Monday. Four navy personnel, currently being held in Adiala Jail, were also questioned during preliminary investigations. All four officials, none of whom had ever been posted at PNS Mehran, have been court-martialed. Just walked through the gate in uniform and started shooting the place up, huh?
Although a navy front man insisted the transfer was pre-planned and unconnected to the terrorist attack at the base, Pakistain's military is under increasing domestic pressure to be held accountable over security lapses. "Commodore Khalid Pervez is taking over as the base commander and his predecessor Raja Tahir will be assigned new responsibilities," Commander Salman Ali, a navy front man, told AFP. He did not say what new job the outgoing commander will hold. "It is a routine and scheduled transfer. The base commander was scheduled to be replaced, even if there was no attack on the facility," he said.
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ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Two officers and a cop were killed and another wounded in bomb blast in Garama area, east of Falluja, police sources said today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that a colonel and a captain were killed in bomb implanted on the side of the road, 13 km east of Falluja.
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The city of Fallujah was now largely ruined, with 60% of buildings damaged or destroyed, and the population at 30%-50% of pre-war levels. This occurred after the second battle of Fallujah.
If it absolutely, positively needs to be destroyed overnight call in the Marines.
[Ennahar] Three Syrian soldiers were killed Wednesday in an ambush by "an armed terrorist group near Homs in central Syria, the scene of anti-regime demonstrations in recent days, said the official news agency Sana.
"A patrol of security services fell this morning in an ambush by an armed terrorist group at an intersection in the village of Ghajar, near Homs," the agency said, quoting a military official.
Three soldiers, members of the patrol were killed in the attack and buried shortly thereafter, the source said.
Homs, Syria's third largest city is affected since April by pro-democracy demonstrations. At least 18 people were killed in the city or the surrounding area Friday and Saturday.
Since the outbreak in mid-March of protest in Syria, at least 1,062 people were killed "by bullets" by the security forces and 10,000 tossed in the calaboose, told AFP Tuesday Qourabi Ammar, president of the National Organisation of Human Rights.
According to the Syrian regime, the troubles facing the country are caused by "armed terrorist gangs" supported by Islamists and foreigners.
Independent verification on the ground is impossible, the regime prohibiting news hounds from moving freely in the country.
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[Iran Press TV] Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... has met with a delegation of holy mans and scholars from the crisis-hit southern city of Dara'a to discuss the ongoing reforms in the country.
The delegation discussed the important role of scholars and mosque imams in preserving the stability and security in the Arab country, Syria's Arab News Agency said on Tuesday.
They also expressed their satisfaction over the current situation in Dara'a.
The southern Syrian city, which was hit by a wave of so-called pro-reform demonstrations during the past two months, is now witnessing a relieving calm.
Assad hailed the holy mans and scholars for their efforts in curbing sedition and consolidating the positive national unity atmosphere in the town.
Syria has witnessed violent protests since mid-March.
While the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the violence, Syrian authorities blame gangs and foreign elements for the aggressive actions, saying security forces have been given clear instructions not to hurt civilians.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... has meanwhile announced the arrest of several members of armed terrorist groups, saying that they have confessed to receiving weapons and money from foreign organizations to kill civilians and security forces in a bid to cause chaos in the country.
Syrian President Bashir al-Assad has vowed to bring those behind the killings to justice.
Last month, Assad also promised to carry out vast political reforms in his administration.
He also abolished a 48-year-long state of emergency in Syria, which was one of the key demands of the protesters.
Experts believe Assad's reforms are a positive development in the Arab country.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Iran Press TV] The sound of four 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Yemen's Defense Ministry says 28 people have been killed in an explosion at a weapons storage facility in Sanaa.
Punjab
PNS Mehran Base Commander Commodore Raja Tahir has been removed from his post after being suspended, and Commodore Khalid Pervez has been appointed new base commander, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. 
